Missing socialism
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:date: 2016-11-09T09:00:00
:category: faith
:tags: politics, socialism, trump

While listening to the Decline of the West episode_ I was told
about this quotation when John Steinbeck was supposed to describe
the political landscape of the US 1930s’:

    I guess the trouble was that we didn’t have any self-admitted
    proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed
    capitalist.

    -- John Steinbeck: America & Americans, 1966

It is strange and I feel strange, but I have been thinking about
working class politics a lot lately. It is not about socialism v.
capitalism (even less), but about elites v. non-elites. We,
elites, whatever are our political opinions, have made system
worked well for ourselves, discarding any avenue those others
could influence the power, as long as the only avenue left to
them were great influential elections, like Brexit or the
Presidential election in US.

We, conservatives, were talking a lot about how the genuine
associations are the most important part of the community, but we
haven’t walked the way much. Perhaps, we should listen to our own
words more. There is now high probability that Michigan will go
for the Republican, and it seems like I am hearing professor
Barry Bluestone talking with admiration about the labor unions,
which are now dead and burried. I wouldn’t be that sorry for
them, except there working poor lost yet another opportunity to
speak to the public affairs in a civilized voice. The only way
how can they speak now is to give us, elites, a middle finger.

(*It is emotional time right now, so it is highly possible that
I will update this blogpost more than once.*)

.. _episode:
    https://www.podcastchart.com/podcasts/the-decline-of-the-west/episodes/1-trump-and-caesarism/pop